Women's Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Centre

This impressive collection of the original work from the Stone Center presents the feminist inspired view of women's development from the self-in-relation theories. It is lucid, it is passionate, and it is ground-breaking. --Teresa Bernardez, MD, Faculty and Supervising Analyst of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council

Traditional psychology devalues and mystifies women. The work of the Stone Center revalues and illuminates. --Judith Lewis Herman, MD, Author of Trauma and Recovery

How splendid to have, in book form, these varied and sensitive explorations of human psychology and development from a relational, women-centered perspective! This is the stuff of which world-transforming changes are made--if only we'll listen. --Paula J. Caplan, PhD, Author of The Myth of Women's Masochism and Don't Blame Mother

Some of our customers waited for years to see the work of the Stone Center collected in a book. Others see Women's Growth in Connection for the first time, scan the table of contents, and feel as if this is the book they've been waiting for. Since publication, this work has generated praise and excitement, and promises to become, like Gilligan's In a Different Voice and Miller's Toward a New Psychology of Women, a 'classic' for readers interested in women's lives and experiences in the world. --Laura Zimmerman, New Words Bookstore, Cambridge, Massachusetts

I have been using Women's Growth in Connection as one of the texts in my graduate course, Psychotherapy with Women. The students, who are graduate students in clinical, counseling psychology, and other mental health professions, have responded enthusiastically....These writings promote a critical reexamination of traditional theories of women's development and inspire therapists to envision new ways of being, for themselves, and for their women clients. --Edna I. Rawlings, University of Cincinnati

The more I read, the more I had difficulty in putting the book down. In fact, I found myself reading sections over and over because of the richness, depth, and newness of the material presented....This collection of writings is an important and long overdue step in formulating new models of women's development. --Nancy R. Hooyman, University of Washington